Senior Full Stack Engineer
New York, NY / Los Angeles, CA
Engineering – Advertising R&D /
Remote
Our mission on the Advertising Product & Technology team is to build a next generation advertising platform that aligns with our unique value proposition for audio and video. We work to scale the user experience for hundreds of millions of fans and hundreds of thousands of advertisers. This scale brings unique challenges as well as tremendous opportunities for our artists and creators.
Spotify is hiring a Senior Full Stack engineer to join the Disco squad in the Ads R&D Team. We work at the intersection of advertising and user experience to connect millions of brands to billions of fans. You’ll help us define and materialize our vision to improve the ad experience for our users and advertisers.
What You'll Do
- Design, implement and ship features using Java, Typescript and other technologies for the Spotify Ads Manager.
- Partner with product managers and business stakeholders to build and scale our services, powering our platform.
- Collaborate with teams and disciplines across the world to deliver high-quality, high-impact customer-facing products and features.
- Perform code reviews, create documentation and take on complex bug fixes across services and multiple levels of the stack.
- Improve operational excellence and share your knowledge across the company to promote best practices.
- Work in an environment that supports your individual growth.
- Uplift and mentor those around you. Especially those more junior than you.
Who You Are
- You are a full-stack engineer with 5+ years of hands-on experience in Java and TypeScript to implement end-to-end features that handle a high volume of data.
- You have a strong understanding of web & API development. You should have hands-on experience building and consuming APIs. A good understanding of REST, gRPC and GraphQL is also required.
- You have a deep understanding of TypeScript design patterns, data structures, APIs and web architecture and understand how to apply them to design pragmatic solutions.
- You care about observability & reliability and have experience with engineering best practices and testing automation to build quality into software and systems.
- You love working in an environment where you constantly deliver and iterate quickly. You have led large, complex multi-team refactors working across domains: frontend, backend, and infrastructure.
- You are comfortable working in an agile environment and are comfortable challenging yourself and your team to improve their ways of working
- You are autonomous, taking full ownership of your work and driving your personal development. You value team success over personal success and have the ability to both uplift and up-level other engineers.
Where You'll Be
- We offer you the flexibility to work where you work best! For this role, you can be within the North American region as long as we have a work location.
- Working hours? The team operates in PST and EST time zones for collaboration. We often need to communicate with our bandmates in the Australian Eastern Standard Timezone.
The United States base range for this position is $160,091- $228,702 plus equity. The benefits available for this position include health insurance, six month paid parental leave, 401(k) retirement plan, monthly meal allowance, 23 paid days off, 13 paid flexible holidays, paid sick leave. These ranges may be modified in the future.
Spotify is an equal opportunity employer. You are welcome at Spotify for who you are, no matter where you come from, what you look like, or what’s playing in your headphones. Our platform is for everyone, and so is our workplace. The more voices we have represented and amplified in our business, the more we will all thrive, contribute, and be forward-thinking! So bring us your personal experience, your perspectives, and your background. It’s in our differences that we will find the power to keep revolutionizing the way the world listens.
At Spotify, we are passionate about inclusivity and making sure our entire recruitment process is accessible to everyone. We have ways to request reasonable accommodations during the interview process and help assist in what you need. If you need accommodations at any stage of the application or interview process, please let us know - we’re here to support you in any way we can.
Spotify transformed music listening forever when we launched in 2008. Our mission is to unlock the potential of human creativity by giving a million creative artists the opportunity to live off their art and billions of fans the chance to enjoy and be passionate about these creators. Everything we do is driven by our love for music and podcasting. Today, we are the world’s most popular audio streaming subscription service.
